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title: 3 children each write every consonant once: 3 × 21 = 63 consonants. — Letters, colours and points · tree and pragmatics
description: 3 children each write every consonant once: 3 × 21 = 63 consonants. Who acts: 3 children. A sentence of the lesson «Letters, colours and points» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Letters, colours and points, sentence 4

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3 children each write every consonant once: 3 × 21 = 63 consonants.

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**Who acts:** 3 children · **What happens:** write · **To what, where:** consonant

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Letters, colours and points» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (3 children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:230-letters-colours-and-points.lesson:4
# text = 3 children each write every consonant once: 3 × 21 = 63 consonants.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 230-letters-colours-and-points.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
4	write	write	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	consonant	consonant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
10	×	×	SYM	SYM	_	11	case	_	_
11	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
12	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	13	case	_	_
13	63	63	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod
14	consonants	consonant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present | each 3 children | every consonant |  |  |  | once *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent consonant=Recipient consonant=Topic |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:lessons:230-letters-colours-and-points.lesson:4`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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